Shao Jingque stretched out a finger and looked at him with a smile.
Rong Yongsi boldly guessed:
"An increase of... one yuan?"
He spoke with a bit of lack of confidence, thinking that his businessman's face was a little too ugly. He would lower the price by a dime, and raise the price by a dollar.
Especially when he saw Shao Jingque shaking his head at him, he felt even more regretful.
How could he lose control and expose his greedy face?
"No, it's a big unity."
Wha...what?
Rong Yongsi really couldn't help but scratch his ears with his hands. He wondered if he was crazy about money, which was why he heard Shao Jingque say that he wanted to raise the price of the Great Unity.
"How much did you say?"
Shao Jingque repeated, "I said, raise it to ten yuan!"
Rong Yongsi was completely shocked. He suddenly started spinning in circles like a donkey on a millstone, and spoke incoherently:
"No way! Who would spend so much money to take a photo? This price is too high, no one can afford it, ten dollars?! No way, it's too high!"
Nowadays, the average worker only earns 30 or 40 yuan a month. There are so many expenses in life. Who would spend one-third of their monthly salary on taking pictures?
Rong Yongsi felt that the price Shao Jingque mentioned was unbelievably high and there was absolutely no way anyone would pay for it.
Shao Jingque was very confident about the price and patiently analyzed it with him:
"If we were taking ordinary registration photos, we definitely wouldn't be able to charge this much, but we're taking a portrait, and we're not just taking one photo, we're taking five photos on one theme."
"Think about it. The costumes, makeup, and props are all provided free of charge. After the photoshoot, they're bound into a book, and in the end, the customer gets their own beautiful album. Spending ten dollars to permanently record their most beautiful self is better than buying a new dress that becomes outdated the following year."
After listening to Shao Jingque's detailed explanation, Rong Yongsi felt that there seemed to be some truth in it. Anyway, he couldn't think of a better way, so he simply listened to her and gave it a try. He gritted his teeth:
"Okay, I'll listen to you. Let's make it this way for now. Once I've set up the studio, we'll shoot a set and put it up at the door to see how it turns out."
After discussing cooperation with Rong Yongsi, Shao Jingque had to rush back to work in the art troupe.
She first went to the office of Captain Liang. Captain Liang looked at the photos and was very satisfied. Only then did she feel at ease to hand the photos over to the Propaganda Department.
When I returned to the backstage of the rehearsal room, I thought Qu Jingyun would make things difficult for me again for being late, but I unexpectedly found that she was not there today.
Wu Shuang quietly revealed to her some of the news she had overheard:
"I heard that Deputy Commander Qu's family is having a wedding soon. She just showed up and left these past few days. But she doesn't look too good. She looks so gloomy. I've never seen anyone so depressed during a family wedding."
Shao Jingque suddenly realized. If Wu Shuang hadn't told her, she would have almost forgotten about this relationship. Isn't Yue Feiying's marriage partner Qu Jingyun's stepson?
The wedding is going to be held next weekend. As a stepmother, no matter how reluctant she is, she can't just give up and do nothing. Even if she has to pretend, she has to do it for others to see.
Thinking of Qu Jingyun's personality, Shao Jingque felt that this marriage with Yue Feiying was unreliable.
No, I must find a way to meet her before the wedding and find out what's going on.
It wasn't even afternoon work time yet, but the dressing room was already bustling with activity.
There is a makeup rehearsal in the afternoon. There are only two makeup artists in the troupe, Liu Cuirong and her new apprentice Fang Ya, so the actors in the shows ahead usually need to come to the dressing room in advance to put on makeup.
Liu Cuirong is a very versatile person. She gets along well with everyone in the group and calls everyone like sisters. However, she treats her apprentice a little too nicely.
Everyone in the troupe knew the reason. It was because when the troupe was recruiting a new makeup artist, Liu Cuirong wanted to arrange her sister-in-law to come in. It was said that she even secretly gave a gift to Qu Jingyun. Unexpectedly, the final result was to choose Fang Ya, who came out of nowhere.
But Liu Cuirong thought that this matter was a sure thing, so she made the promise early on. Her sister-in-law was very grateful to her, and her mother-in-law praised her daughter-in-law's ability to everyone she met. But in the end, it was all in vain.
Her family was in chaos. Her sister-in-law cried and pestered her, her mother-in-law pointed at her nose and scolded her, and her husband also blamed her for not doing her job well.
Liu Cuirong, who was in a difficult situation, did not dare to cause trouble for Qu Jingyun, nor did she dare to blame her for accepting gifts but not doing her job. She could only vent her anger on Fang Ya.
At first, Liu Cuirong was worried about whether Fang Ya had any backers, so she was more reserved when talking to her. However, when teaching her, she tried to find out what she was thinking. In the end, she came to the conclusion that Fang Ya was just lucky and had no backers at all.
From that day on, her attitude towards Fang Ya became worse and worse. She would always blame her for not doing something well, and losing her temper and swearing at her was commonplace.
Fang Ya could only bear it silently, because not only did she have to learn makeup from Liu Cuirong, but she also needed Liu Cuirong to write her work performance report when she was hired. In this situation, how could she dare to offend Liu Cuirong?
Others didn't say much. After all, it was common for a master to teach his apprentice, and each master had his own way of teaching.
However, at this moment, Shao Jingque only saw Liu Cuirong helping the actor in front of her to put on makeup, and did not see Fang Ya.
She had an idea and remembered that she had promised Rong Yongsi to help the photo studio with the costumes and props, so she planned to find an opportunity to quietly ask Liu Cuirong if she was willing to take on some private work.
Just as Liu Cuirong finished her makeup, she walked over to Shao Jingque's dressing table with her suitcase and looked at herself in the mirror:
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